Universal putting disk



C. B. CORY.

- UNIVERSAL PUTTING DISK.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 4. 1921.

. ,4 7, 5 Patented May23,1922.

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T 0 all whom it mag/concern Be it known that I, CHARLES B. CORY, a

citizen of the United States, and a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinols, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Universal Putting Disks, of which the following is afull, clear, and exact specification.

My invention is concerned with what are known as practice putting disks and is designed to produce a simple device'that can be cheaply constructed and which will enable the user to perfect his putting without the necessity of having a hole in the surface over which the practice takes place.

To this end it consists of a preferably circular base of sheet metal in the center of which is located a vertical pin upon which is pivoted a cup member having one open side adapted to face in any direction'and provided with a retaining member across the open side over which a slowly traveling ball that would drop in a regular cup passes readily, but which retains such a ball on its rebound. r v

To illustrate my invention, I annex hereto a sheet of drawings in which the same reference characters are used to designate identical parts in all the figures of which- Fig. 1 is perspective view of my apparatus;

Fig. 2 is a vertical section on an enlarged scale on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1; and

Fig. 3 is a detail in section on the line 33 of'Fig. 2.

In carrying out my invention in its previded with the two outwardly projecting curved portions f between which is located the inwardly projecting curved portion 9, said portions 7 and 9 serving as a bearing for the tube 0, so that the cup can be swung around to bring its open side in alignment with the ball, wherever the latter may lie. As a ball that was moving slowly enough to sink in an ordinary cup might roll back on The center of the curved portion of the cup is preferably prov I Specification of Iietters Patent. Pa' ten iged Ifiay 23, 19,22 vApplication filed April 4., 1921 Serial No. 458,416.

vertical surface 7', which stops arebounding ball unless it is moving with such force that 1t would have surely jumped over an open cup had it been used with such. This retaining member it may be soldered, or otherwise secured, between the ends of the cup.

v I preferably make theaperture through which the pin 6 passes large enough so that the tube. 0 can tilt slightly, so that when a" ball strikes the rear ;of the cup,it tilts the same and does not havethe, same tendency to slide the base a over the rug, or other surface on which it rests, as it would have if the pin ortube c 'wereri'gid and the cup d could not tilt. s

The use of the device will be readily understood, as it will be seen that it can be placed'on a smooth piece of turf, on a rug same and whenever a putting stroke is to be made, the open side is turned toward the ball, which is thenfstruck in the ordinary manner, and if the direction is right and the ball is struck just; hard enough, it will roll 1 up over the surface hand into the cup and stop there.

If it is struck too hard, but enters the cup, it will rebound so violently as to pass over the retaining member it, thus necessitating another stroke before the ball is holed. y While I have shown my invention as deor carpet, or wherever it is desired to use the vised primarily for a practice putting disk,

it might be used for other purposes, and while I have shown and described it as'embodied in theform which I at present con sider best adapted to carry out its purposes,

it will be understood it is capable of some I modification and that I do not desire to "be ing claims, except as may be necessitated by the state of the prior art. 7 l

What I claim as new and desireto secure by Letters Patent of the United States is:

1. In a device of the class described, the combination with a base, of a cupmember pivotedlthereon on a vertical axis and open at one side, and a retaining member across said open side, for thepurpose described.

. 2. In a device of the class described, the combination with a base, of a cup member limited in the interpretation of the followpivoted thereon on a vertical axis and open at one side, and a piece across the open side of the cup having its outer side inclined upward at a small angle to the base. v

3. In a device of the class described, the combination with a base, of a cup member pivoted thereon on a vertical axis and open at one side, said'aXis-being tiltable, and a retalning member across said open side, for

the purpose described.

4. In a device of the class described, the combination with a sheet metal base, of a cup membergenerally U-shaped in horizontal cross-section, mounted to turn thereon at the center of its curved portion by a vertical pivot, and a retaining member across the open side of the cup, for the purpose described.

5. In a device of the class described, the combination with a sheet metal base, of a cup member generally U-shaped in horizontal cross-section, mounted to turn thereon at the center of its curved portion by a vertical pivot, and a piece secured across the open side of the cup'having it outer side inclined upwardly at a small angle to the base.

In Witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal, this fifteenth day of March, A. D. 1921.

CHARLES B. CORY. [Ls] Witness:

JOHN HOWARD MOELROY. 

